In which Corgi is chain-drinking again.

[sff_corgi_lj]

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It's Diet Pepsi, of course. I swear, I should buy stock.

Hmmm... do you know how difficult it is to find Diet Pepsi in downtown Manchester...?

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Speaking of Diet Pepsi, I committed recycling today. 54 pounds of cans for $20. That's about $0.37/lb. if I did my maths correctly. And that's not even all the cans, it's just all that would fit in Ein-y-Gwyn.

I do the recycling here at work; it's almost like I can't NOT do so. I got better results back in our old building, where I had a... a... bin with a can-squisher on top, right next to the soda machine. Here, a lot more people just toss things out.

I hate seeing stuff wasted, y'know?

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Stream-of-reference:  Since I mentioned, and am at, work, I must tell you why I am 'mooding' stressed. Continental Airlines has its employee insurance enrollment going on right now. In order to enroll, employees must access the employee website.

Simple enough, right? Except that it seems a good 50% of Continental's 25K-or-so employees have either never logged into said website, forgot their passwords, or have let them expire.

This was/is an 8-hour shift. I have taken 60 calls. I'd estimate 80% of them, at LEAST, have been these BLOODY PASSWORD RESETS WHICH COULD/SHOULD BE DONE BY A BLOODY VOICE-RECOGNITION ROBOT.

Yes, they make me insane. Some of these people... one time, I had one of them tell me he didn't know what I meant by 'capital letter'.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....

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mephron has initiated a bit of a debate/discussion:

Why are people more likely to react to news of animals being in distress than something like, for example, the Staten Island Ferry accident?

I added my two knuts.

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And mightygodking has a link to a very interesting and thought-provoking commentary of why an Iraqi civil war is gonna get the U.S. pinched in the middle but viciously.

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Tonight, I have had one of my evil headaches -- I blame myfanwy for them, I swear she 'contaiged' me -- all evening. This isn't like a migraine; it feels almost more like an allergic reaction to sleeping badly, if that makes sense. It did centre behind my right eye, similar to a migraine, but is far more likely to induce nausea (not in this instance, thankfully), and usually makes me go to bed early.

sit_good_dog has Reiki'd me, and it actually is FINALLY feeling better, but I'm still going to bed early. I hate the feeling of my brain short-circuiting.

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I'm starting to get an itch to write more on Alex and Sirius's lives. However, I am dilemma'd.

I don't know whether to follow canon or not; if I can't decide, I don't think I'll have the momentum to write FOUR versions of the story, splitting Sirius alive/Sirius enVeiled.

Expect a poll on this. I'll really need your help deciding.

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Lastly, I think -- copperbadge is writing a WAFFy* little AU 'fic in which Sirius was never blamed for James & Lily's deaths and with Remus, has been lurking around Privet Drive, watching over an eight-year-old Harry.

Look in my Memories under 'Fanfic (HP)' for the link to the first three chapters.


* WAFFy - 'Warm And Fuzzy Feeling'-y. Means: fluffy, relatively stress-free characters and therefore readers.

Comments

[meril.livejournal.com]

Our intranet is so useless it's a wonder anyone logs on to it. I'm not surprised people at other companies forget theirs.

Sorry to hear about your call volume. 60 calls/day is actually rather nice. I've been clocking 90-110 a day for the past month.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Ew.

What do you support? And do you have to log EACH and every call, or just certain kinds?

[meril.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm a dispatcher, so we don't have to "log" every call but we do have to note every customer account we look at.

I used to work in technical support for the Road Runner ISP and we did have to log every call. I usually ran about 60-90 calls a day there, too.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

What's your 'favourite' kind of call for wanting to throw your headset against the wall?

I'm a sort of 2nd-level support, so 60 calls is actually pretty high - that's because the password resets actually take more time for the macro to set up/close the case than for me to turn my brain off and run my verbal script.

I was begging... begging for broken printers. REAL problems.

[h311ybean]

This isn't like a migraine; it feels almost more like an allergic reaction to sleeping badly, if that makes sense.
Makes perfect sense. I get sleep-related headaches a lot myself. I hope you feel better soon.

And there is to be more Alex/Sirius? That would be KEWL :D Bring it on, I will take it in any form.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

I just had to, literally, sleep on it. Zonked right out, too.

OK, more Alex/Sirius, but do you have an opinion? What's more important, balm for our wounded psyches or resolute stiff-upper-lipped canon adherence?

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Screw canon. Write Sirius alive.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Gee, sure about that? *snicker*

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

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You might even say I'm dead serious about it.
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